Panhandle Inn to bring summer scares for two weekends

It’s months before Halloween, but one haunted house will try to scare visitors in a special summer show beginning Friday.

Panhandle Inn Foundation will host Tribute to Horror from 9 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday, as well as July 19 and 20.

The Inn, Third and Main streets in Panhandle, has sat vacant for more than 40 years. Proceeds will benefit a renovation fund.

Scares won’t be based on slasher films but instead on 1970s and earlier horror films, organizers said.

“The Tribute is a spook house and will feel mostly different because it’s summer, but I think the guests will leave thinking it was a cool scare,” Julie Young said in an email. “There are many more surprises as the guests go back in time in our inn that was left vacant in 1971.”